How the structure-bound experiencing of clients can influence the therapeutic relationship and the therapist’s manner of experiencing is explained with the help of the concept ‘self-in-presence’ from inner relationship focusing. Although, getting caught up and releasing ourselves from a structure-bound experience can also have a function in the therapeutic process. Because the therapist also has experienced the manner of experiencing of the client, she can let develop a felt sense which also contains the living for- ward of the situation. Sometimes this leads the therapist to a new relational position which can offer a corrective interactional exhet artikel perience for the client.
structure-bound experiencing, therapeutic relationship, self-in-presence, inner space
The tPeP (Journal Person-centered experiential Psychotherapy) is the scientific journal for Dutch and Flemish psychotherapists, psychologists, and psychiatrists, that work from, or are interested in a client-centered perspective.
